The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

XONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE, CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The Money Market is still well supplied with capital, and the commercial public find little diffi culty in discounting their bills at rates fractionally below the official minimum. The inquiry for ac commodation to.day has been moderate, and many lre now indulging the hopeful feeling that lower luotations will soon prevail. The charges for the best paper having a week or so to run are 81a per coot., but the larger number of transactions are recorded at 9 per cent.. _ There were no bullion operations of importance kt the Bank yesterday. Mi.. John Piddington, of Gracechureh-street, Foreign patent agent, has failed with liabilities .stiraated at £30,000; and Messrs. Duckworth and Do., wine merchants, with debts and liabilities to a considerable amount. Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce ‘larkets during the last few days has been rather lull. Sugar has maintained former prices, while ill has been at rather lower rates. In coffee an average business has been reported at steady quota jails, while rice, fruit, and spices have remained nactive at about former rates. Tallow has been in ) etter request at enhanced quotations for both pre- Lent and forward delivery. _ _ At a general meeting, held to-day, of the pro )rietors of the Demerara Railway Company, Mr. Sohn A. Tinne in the chair, the statement of ►ecouats presented erlibited a balance on revenue Leount of £4,684 143. 5d., out of which the direc ,ore proposed a payment of £2,600 133, 6d., the ) reference dividend on capital applicable to the old ine, and of /1,688 153., a dividend at the rate cf per cent. per annum on the original stock, ►mounting together to £4,289 83. 6d., leaving a ) glance of £395 53, lid. to be carried forward to he current half-year. Two O'CLOCK. At the Paris Bourse this day, according to teuters telegram, the 3 per Cent. Relates were looted 64f. 90c. to 64f. 92c. Firm. _ Business recently has been more active in the -inglish Stock Market than for some time past. the public are more hopeful than they were, and pro consequently investers where they were ellers of stock. Under such circumstances, he Funds continue to make daily pro. ress, and Consols for money have tow reached 19 1, =',l, and for ihe account 891, I. The New Z hrees ind Reduced Annuities are 871 ; Exchequer Bills, lOs to 6s dis. ; and India 5 per Cents., 1041 0 5; Bank Stock is marked 237 239; and India do., 113. In the Foreign Market there is not much activity, 'ut prices are generally firmer. Turkish 6 per 'ants., 1862, are 70 s ; do. Consolides, 492 ; :lexicon, 26k ; do. New 25/- 1; Greek, 22k ; panisla Passive, 30V,-; do. Certificates, 13a z ; tussian, 871 d ; and the Confederate Loan, 65 66. In the Railway Share Market the operations lave been on a limited scale ; prices, however, xhibit a firmer tone. North Western, Metro. ' o litan, and South Eastern, have each improved ; and Great Western, £1; while Caledonian lid Great Eastern have declined ss. .1211 e Foreign and Colonial lines continue dull nthont material change in values. Bank and Miscellaneous Shares remain in aoderate request. Union of Amsterdam have de. lined £1; Alliance Bank, 10s.; Bank of Austra lia, £1 ; and London and County, £l. In the Miscellaneous Market Royal Mail Steam aye declined to 93 94; General Credit have ims 'roved to 61 I. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. GOVERNMENT FUNDS. Per Cent. Consols Do Account, Nov. 12 Per Cent. Reduced 8 74 i Lew 3 per Cent levy 2i per Cent. Jen. IS9I Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 — I . l thuities, 30 yrs, expire &th Jan., 1880 — Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1835 — Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 — March. June. 4 chequer Bills, £l,OOO, 4 & 31 per Cent. 6 10 Do 1500 Do £lOO and £2OO ........ ! auk England Stk, 5/ per Ct. .......... 237 9 Do Account —' INDIGN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. ndia Stock, 10/ per Cent., April 1874 213 -Do Account Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870 1) 0 4 per Cent., Oct, 1888 — Do Certificates 1)o Account Do 1 pee Cent. (Deferred 3 per Cent.) — 1)o 4i pee Cent — De Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent - FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Lttstrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ............ - • /raziliart 5 per Cent ........ Do 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 ........ 811 Do . 1863................ auenos Ayres 6 Per, Cent .............. Do Account...... ........... ) Lilian 6 per Cent. Do 4f per Cent ........... ....... . - olorubian 6 per Cent — 13•ba, 6 per Cent. - Do 5 p er Cent. 1864 )anish 3 per Cent., 1825 Do 6 per Cent, 1864 .......... - flliador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent l2 S •Do, Provisonal Land Warrant.. — 4 gYPtlan 7 per Cent ................ ' Do, Second Issue -- ' Do £lOO Bonds , itek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons — 22 Do Account ............ " Coupons ........................ De f -,'ie Account ........................ ‘luatentala 5 per Cent. ................ -••• Do 1839 and 1859 , .................. —. k talian 5 per Cent.(Alaremmana Itailway) —• 61exican 3 per Cent .............. --- Da Account .................. Do 1864 ................ --- Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French dis Ditto Scrip, £33 paid.... ~, lie French Scrip, Ex. 25 f 200 — dis x a ~ . ,-, - 0 0 rich Imperial 5 per Cent ." 1 Ow Granada — Do 2 per Cent......... — Do Deferred 1)0 Laud Warrants (Hectares) —. bo Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 — ..., Do do Aug., 1866 '- .C - o ruvi an 41 per Cent Do 3 per Cent. (Uribarren) — Do 41 per Cent., 1862 .. Do Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Do Account .. Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '60,„62,'3.. ..., Do Account . • • . — ' , ID - Bkm 6 per Cent., 1822, £ St -- Do 41 per Cent., 1850 • • Do 1860 Do 3 per Cent 1859 _ Do i per Cent, 1862 Do Anglo-Dutch .... Do Scrip, £56 paid ar•iinian 6 per Cent Do Account 'Panish 3 per Cent Do Account — Do New Deferred 411 Do Account 1)o Passive — Do Account 3O I.3 l , anish Cert. of Coup not funded — Do Account — Swedish 4 per Cent — ... Do Scrip, £6O paid - p m 6 per Cent. 1854 — Do Acc0unt............ .. Do 6 per Cent. 1858 Do Account Do £lOO Bonds Do 6 per Cent. 1862 70i Do Account ................... . 7G# DoDo £lOO Bonds.. 7l-1 Do 1863........•••••• Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.. — ...Do 1863 Scrip, £4O paid '— Venezuela 3 per Cent. 4)0 Account — :Do 6 per Cent., 1862 .. Do Account — Do 6 per Cent,, 1864 42 3 Dividends on the above payable in London Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 Florins. 13olgian 41 por Cent., Ex. 25f — Dutch 2i per Cont., Ex. 12 Guil Do ' per Cent. Certificates rrench Rentes, 2 per Cent. .. Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs.. Do Account Poruvian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct,Ex. 4s. Piedinontese, 5 per Cent., Ex, 25f — TWO 0 O'CLOCK Consols, Money•,•••.• t •••• 89} Do Account B9a SHARE MA REM'S —This day. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOXS. Paid, Closing Business glare Railways. Price. done. Shstr. Wol., and Str. 3lythe and Tyne. :3ristol and Exeter k2aledonian Jork and Bandon t.lornwall Do A A bets no diN Do. B tiilOpo.pan.haF been paid to E. publin .t Belfast June Oun.,Perth,,Sz Ab. June Edinburgh & Glasgow. Glaag. and S. Western Great Eastern, Ord. stl Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian (_ 4 rcatNorthof Scotland rcat Northern Do A Ptook Do B do Gt. S. ant W. of Trelan ,Great West err,Orig,inal FCC Str Val 11£1,. Do. South Wales Do. tv,.*t _-3)xton.: Po Newpor Tao Hereford Laneashlie & Yorkshirt Louden and Blackwali Lon., liright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover, Lon. & North Western' Lon. & So , ..th Western' Man., Shef., & Lincoln Maryport and Carlisle. Do ...... Metropolitan Midland Do "Arming. & Derb., :lid. Gt. W. of Irelam, • D 3. ehares. Mid Kett North British 'Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwiok Do, G.N.E. purcha6: Do Leed.3 Do York Do 'Do. ttcok. t Pftrang. 'Do do 1835-58 Do do 1886.81 ,North London Do New Do Neva, 18Ci4. ...... North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot. N. E., Aber. stoeh Do Soot. Mid. stoelr • Shrews. and IVelchpool . I Shroshire Union South Devon South Eastern Statues, Woh.,andWok 'Tall Vale- Do C Vale of Neath Waterford It Kilkenny West Cornwall W. Ilartl:pool 100 st 1 51 55 ,00 0;1 idle yr 41 6 7 8 1() Rll All lOv 95 10J 92 94 9teck Stool 100} 1016 100 JOl 19 20 stook 10 83 92 67 70 59 31 63 65 55 57 51 53 46 50 28 30 25 `,B 10} i 0 id pr id 1r 10)1 Ace!. stook 90 100 stock stock 1001 1001 I g 94 114 11 03 02 77 81 d 109 101 03 05 88 00 stook *took stock stook I'l I lli .:8 CO all 100 (10' 100 ( 2 i 1( 0 OM ito( etoel It 5 80 S 3 99 ICO 93i 99} id par 98i 99i 95 97 stock COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. British Columbia, 6 per cent., Dec. 31, 1872 100 ' Do. do. 1883 100 1877-81 100 93 96 96 Do. Ap. o. Feb. & Am, 100 91 94 Do. 6p. & Sept 100 91 91 Do. sp. c. Jan.&July. 100 80 85 $2l Do. 5 Jnscribed stool 100 78 St !ape (.I.llope, 6 p 100 104 105 Do.Ap & Oct. 18S( 100 104 106 Do. 1891 100 1( 5 107 t)o. Jan. & July. 1891. [OO 107 104 ;eylon, N0v.1868, 6 p 100 102 105 Do. 1878, do. 100 0 9 112 ;lauritius 6 p.cent.lB73 00 102 105 Do. 1878 100 101 107 Do. 1882 100 106 103 i'atal Gov. 6 per cent_ 100 102 104 1031 1.8.G0v. 6 p.c. J a.&.1u1) 1.00 03 96 93 I. S.W. Gov. 5 p 0.,180 , 100 97 99 Do. sp. c.,1871 to 187% 100 95 07 Do. do.,;888 &upwdt 100 04 06 23 lew Zealand 6 p cent 100 100 103 ~cvaScotiaGov. 6 p. sterling, 1875. lOO 96 93 iuecnsland Gcv. 6p. o. 100 100 102 101 ..'A us Cov. 6 p.e.1868- 100 Do. 1_76 &ui ward 4... 100 105 107 Vic. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 10 6 p.c. An.&Oot.. 100 1011 1051 105 41 BRITISH MINES. 2 ;ambrisn COll6Ol. Golfl 1 Chiverton 3 5) 61 inttoro Amalgamated.- 31 )evon O. Cons. (Tavist. 1 580 600 390 Drakewal's— ..ast Bassett (Illogan) du 55 60 East Caradon 2.14.8 23 24 lAst Caro Brea East Grenville .. East Lovell . • 2.13.6. 114 121 W'l Russel (Tavistk. 3.13. , 41 6 3t.Aubvn(G wen 60, (3 8 4 Great Laxey,Rm...: all 15 16 lreai Soutu Tolgus... 175 14 2 1. Wheal Vor(LielstoL 40 00 32 321 irenville.. • 7B. r. 5/ 63 lerod's-Foot 6.13 88 40 •Ilngston Downs 4.18.1 4 41 , iargaret (tiny Lelanl 1 7 9 tarke Valley.. 4 1 yndy Iron Ore (Lim. 2k 11 1 6 19 25 97 ' iew Setun 2ll (0 70 orilt Downs 3 11 North Roskear. 291 18 20 4. ‘i Basset(lllogan 3.1 , .6 14 2 Borth Wheal Crafty . 2.80 21 11 Prosper United...., • 7.1.'. 3t 31 •rovidence(Uny Lein'. to 6.7 36 33 louthCa.radon(St.Cleer 11 2() 540 !Wheal Fran. (Mogan .1.3.18. i, 33 36 itray Park 40.17 ., 20 22 tin Crolt 35 16 West Basset (1.110 ,, an).. 11 8 9 C , radon (Liskeare 9 5 6 West Chiverton Nest Setoa ...... ,Vbeal Basset (Mogan 51 92 95 ',Vbeal Buller(Redrutb, 1 0.1 1 2 14 Wheal Ludeott —,Wheal MaryAnni,:den 8 15 17 seton 5Si; 200 205 tVheal Treiawney (Lls. 7 18 20 *.Vheal Union 4 f 31 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great 1)1 Lanca' Di 7Zorthern, 5 per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm.,°.1581 itto, 5 per cent., redeemable at 5 per cent., 103 shire and cent. Blackburn cent, stock. :ito, 4i per cent., Blackburn pur., 99 fit PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Northern, 5 per cent., irred.„ 108 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Antwerp and Rotterdam, fli Great Luxembourg, 9illo San Paulo Ditto ( all m ) li , 18 .Vgua. 7 per Cent., ( South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, FOREIGN MINES. Yudanamutana of S. Aufitralia, Um., 1 2 BAN 43. Alliance (Um., , 141 3 . 4 Ditto, new 335 Anglo-Italian, lim., 31 Australasia, t 9 Bank of British Columbia, 154 Bank of Egypt, 234 Bank of New Zealand, 151 Brazilian and Portuguese, lim., 104 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 34 Commercial Bank of India and the East, Ditto, issued at t o"„prn., of which 10 is pd , 275 Consolidated Bank, lim., 91 European Bank, lim., 91 - Hindustan, China, and Japan (lira.), 28 Imperial Ottoman, 161 Land Mortgage Bank of India, lira., 41 5 London Bank of Mexico and S. America, Jim., 44 London and County, 691 London Joint Stock, 44 35 London and Westminster, 94 Sy „:3 Merchant Bank, him , 2) 4 Oriental Bank Corporation, 53 Provincial of Ireland. 895 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi, lim., Union of Australia, 51 Union of London, 51 V/ DOCKS. London and St. Katharine, 561 MISCELLANEOUS. Commercial Union, Insurance, 81 Credit o (£2)Foncier a a nd blobithr of England, Ditt , Di sco unt Corporation. 125 Electric Telegraph, 1(5 Fore-street Warehouse, lim., 84 G en. Credit and Finance of London, lim., 6 , 1 International Financial society, lim., 65 ;.7, international Land Credit, lim., 4) Italian Irrigation (Canal Cav our), Ditto, 6 per cent. Bonds , Joint 1870, issued 90, 84 5 Joint Stock Discount, lira.. t 1 24 London Financial Association, lim., 214 3 te l ne, 1 , 01 London Genewral Omnibus Company, 21 tiata 1 Land ..ca P Nuthual Discount eninsula and Oriental o isdi Company,ai a n t 4} , i . , t 3 10y:41.11.4a Brain, t 3 4j Liverpool Cotton Markot—This Day, Tbi , ro is a good demand for cotton to-day, at ar: Improvement in prices. Sales, probably 8,000 or 1 0,000 bales, 18.14, 82 414 123 12t 51 ti 31 33 16 17 83 85 105 107 434 44i 6 8 li9 130 140} /41i 121 8) 91 73i 74 53 54 30 42 93 111 1121 1131 67 103 105 3S 4C 1121 [l3t 1 , 4 Fu 61 65 1 oi 1111 1291 134 100 102 52 63 24 45 1G64 107 i 65i C6l 95 f 125 130 355 365 9 10 s 75 86 113 123 1 15 76 77 101 131 133 G 5 67 35 17 std B:3i 8 9 155 :60 3 i 4 i II 98 100 a 34 1231 431 4 fi 1131 661 111 i 130} i 1.001 2 10 71 951 I E 3 i 141 31 21 74 iiiii 11:11 gifq 0 'Justness dont BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Railwaya qipntio & St Lawreno lom,Barodn•teent G n. 5 per cent - De. E. Shores.. u flak) and L•axe!lore Do. l'retcrunee • Jai-0 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 187 Do. do. July 1, 187 )o. do. Julie 1, 18; .ilcut ta..t S. Eas tn lapeTown .'z Dock 'Seri Demerara 7 p.o. per. pf Mastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. mast Indian. gu. 5 p. • Do. do. J Ext.... ,(1 rand Trunk of Caned: • Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds 1 charge a per cent Do. lst Do. do. deferred...—. Do. 2d Pret. Bonds.. Do. do. deferred...... Do. 3d Pref. stock ... Do. do. deferred..... Do. 4th Pref. stock... Do. do. deferred...... gt.lndlarentn.gua. s p. ( Do. Gu 3. 5 per cell' .• Do. New gua. p. a.. it. South.of India(Lin: guaranteed 5 per cent Do. 4i per cent.... Do It. W. of Canada Share Do. New Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt no. 5i p. 0. do. '77-8.... Indian Branch Limited 41adrits, guar., 5 p. o. Do. 4f p. 0. Extensioi Do. 4* • Do. Fifth Extension. blelb•Corp. 6 p. o. Bnch , Aelb. & Hobson's Bay lewßrunowlok Cand. .........._ Clams A and B. :1. Itl.C'da6 pa Ist pt bdt Sainde ..........1 . . )o. Delhi a.- Ft c• )o. do c.. a , Do. Panjaub Do. Indus. St. Floq) Li,. Paid. Closing Price. GENERAL CRIMINAL COURT—This Day, OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) ROBBERY. Edward Carlton, alias Petcr Watkins, 32, described as a carpenter, was indicted for stealing 40 yards of Linsey cloth, value £3 10s, the property of Richard Laxton, a warehouse man in the City. The prisoner cross-examined the persons who captured him with great adroitness, to show that there were jobbing porters in the City, who carried about goods for warehouse mez/1 and that he willingly went back to Mr Laxton's as soon as he was accused of th,p robbery. _ A clerk in the employment of the owner of the property said the prisoner had no authority to remove the goods; and that the firm never sent goods by such persons. He know nothing of the prisoner. The prisoner, having no ecunsol, addressed the jury in his own M'env, urging that his conduct did not imply guilt. _ _ . Lhe jury however took an entirely different view of the cas, and wit h.:tit a moment's hesitation found him guilty. A po!ice officer provtd a previous conviction, and as he had net reported himself under the new regulations on leaving his penal servitude before the expiration of his time he was on the look out for him. The Recorder sent::nced him to seven sears penal:servi- Aide . PAWNBROKERS. Several pawnbrokers who had taken in things of value from a young man who was indicted for stealing them, were called, and their expenses were disallowed by the Recorder. SIULLER'S CASE. This afternoon, shortly after Li o'clock, the witnesses who have been summoned in the case of Franz Muller, who is charged with the murder of Mr Thomas Briggs, on the North London Railway, attended before the Grand Jury, Mr Elward Mappin being the fireman. The avenues of the coin t were crowded with people who were content to catch even a hasty glance of the persons who aro to play a promi nent part in the trial. Fifty-one witnesses have been cub -Iceaed on the part of the prosecution, but the evidence of a vast number of them is of little more than a formal cha rector, and will occupy the Court but a short time. It is thought the witnesses, who will bo subjected to a rigorous cross-examination, will not be more than eight. The in vestigation by the Grand Jury was, of course, conducted with closed doors, but it is understand that Mr T. Briggs, a son of the deceased, Mr Death the jeweller, Mathews the cabman, and others, bore testimony to the facts in rcferenco to which they spoke when they were before the police ma gistrate and the coroner. The Grand Jury found a true bill against Muller. rHE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 25, 1864. SHIPPING-THIS DAY, LONDON, Oct. 2.s.—Wind this day at noon—North- Westerly; moderato breezy and fine weather, but rather clouly. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sala manca, from Loudon for Madras, with damage to bul- works, &c. CA.RNARVON, Oct. 23.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Volante, from Quebec. PLYMOUTH, Oct. 25.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Hornot, from London for Sydney—London, fromaLondon for Mel bourn°. BRISTOL, Oct• 240—Wind N N.W.—Arrived—Dere, from New York. DARTMOUTH, Oct. 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Rosa Bonheur, from Cephalonia, (3T MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GEAVEkIEND, Tuesday Morning. Arrived, Oct. 24—Emulous and Tartary from Patras— King of Tyre, from Faroe. Arrived, Oct. 25—Guatemala, from Boston—Chatsworth, from Calcutta— Wanteata, from Bombay—Alexandra, from Algoa Bay—Forth, from Hamburg. DEAL, Tuesday Morning. Passed—Zenith, from London for the west—Fling, from London, for Corfu—Free Lad, from Quebec, for London-- Chevy Chase, bark, from the west, for London, The Tribunal of Correctional Police on Saturday tried a man named Chavoutier, a check-taker at the Theatre du Chatelet, and a woman named Roblin, a box-opener at the same theatre, fJr embezzling a number of checks or counter-marks belonging to the director of the said theatre; four men, named Winkler, Gambelon, Jonan, and Guille main, were also charged with selling the same and dividing the proceeds with the two first-named prisoners. The evi• deuce against all the prisoners being conclusive, Chavoutier was condemned to six months' imprisonment, Winkler and Gambelon each to four months, and Jouin and Guillemain each to two months of the same punishment ; and all of them severally to 251 r. fine. The woman Roblin was sen tenced to a fortnight's imprisonment. THE INCENDIARY FIRES IN YORKSHIRE AND LINCOLNSIIIRE.—The prevalence of fires in stack yards is causing inquiry to be wade by some of the insur ance Lazes into the bearing of a report which has gained currency, that these destructive fires are likely to occur only in the stockyards of those farmers who have used reaping machines. It is said that threatening notices to that effect have been found in some places, but there is no tangible shape for the rumour. It has, however, had the effect of alarming some of the insurance offices. No alteration of rates has yet been made, but in certain cases the insurance agents have been instructed to inquire of their ous'omets us to their use or otherwise of reapers, which tend to lessen the demand for labour. EITRAORDINARY ROBBERY AND DISCOVERY OF £[oo.—On Friday, at the Preston sessions, a man named Joshua Bond, who for years has occupied a respectable po sition at Fleetwood, was charged with stealing two £5O Bank of England notes belonging to the New Fyldo Timber Company. The circumstances of the case were of a very singular character. It appeared from the evidence that on the 6th of October, 18G0, a man named John Walkden, re siding at a place called Church, in East Lancashire, paid two £5O Bank of England notes to a young man named Richard Mayor, in the employ of the New Fylde Timber Company at Fleetwood. Mayor received the money in the presence of the prisoner Bond, who advised him to put it in his pocket book. In the evening Mayor, whilst making up his accounts, for the purposo of handing over his cash to the company, missed the two £5O notes, and as he could give no account of them, suspicion naturally fell upon his honesty. Ho was apprehended, placed in the lock-up at Kirkham, and afterwards brought before the magistrates at Blackpool. Bond was one of the witnesses who gave evidence egainst him —but nothing verypositive could be elicited, and eventually Mayor was discharged. But he took the matter deeply to heart. The public seemed to point to him as being the guilty party; but he was conscious of his innocence, and the fact that others could not feel the same so preyed upon his mind that his health gradually gave way, and from a strung, stalwart young man he became a paralysed, bed-ridden in valid. About two months ago a new phase in the case tran spired. A little boy, whilst playing in a yard connected with the premises of the New Flydo Timber Company at Fleetwood, found a pocketbook. On examining it he shouted out "Notes I" Another boy then came up, and afterwards an official of the company, who was passing, took charge of the book, opened it, and at once saw that its contents were two £5O Bank of England notes, and several settled bills, dec., which had been made out to Bond who at that time was officiating as the company's salesman. Suspicion then fell upon Bond, and ho was apprehended. On being charged with stealing the notes, he made a statement to the effect that he lost his pocketbook a few months be fore; that the book which had been found was his; but that when he lost it there were no notes in it, and that some ono must have put those found in it. Evidence was given showing that the notes found in the pocket-book were the same as those paid over to Mayor by Walkden ; that after they wore paid Mayor placed them in a bag, that ho was then requested by Bond to take some consignment notes to an office in Fleetwood ; that both ho and Bond went out of the company's office at the same time; that Mayor was absent about five minutes and missed the notes, as previously named ; that Bond as well as Mayor had a key which would open the office door and give access to the apartment where the cash bag containing the notes were placed. For the defence, it was contended by the prisoner's counsel that there was no evidence to show that the robbery had been committed by Bond ; that he was not seen to take the money and bad never been suspected of doing so, and that ho had always borne a good character. The prisoner was acquitted. Mr Kaye appeared for the prosecution, and Mr Pope for the prisoner, The trial occupied between eight and nine hours in hearing, and was not finished until about 6 o'clock. FATAL ACCIDENT ON LUDGATE-HILL.—AII ins quest took place yesterday before the City coroner, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, concerning the death of a man named Garrett Punch, a labourer, aged 53, under the following circumstances :—The deceased was employed on the works of the new bridge for the railway which crosses Ludgate-hill, and was at work on a scaffolding 16 feet from the ground. One of his companions dropped a coat to the ground, and the deceased removed one of the planks on the scaffolding, leaving a gap through which he drew up the coat, He replaced the plank, but, as it proved, did not do so properly, for stepping on it afterwards it gave way, and he fell through the aperture. Ho was painfully injured, and, having been removed to the hos pital, died on Saturday. His back was broken by the fall, and he suffered dreadfully from the injuries. The jury found a verdict of " Accidental death," ROMAN CATHOLICS IN AUSTRALIA.—A Melbourne paper says—" By a private letter recently received wo learn that the Rev. Mr Scully, who some time since visited this colony, is now in Rome busily employed in inducing the Papal Court to send out to Australia ten Roman Catholic biohopa and a hundred priests. At the present time there are three Catholic sees vacant in the colonies, those of Armidalo and Goulbourn, in New South Wales, and Ade laide, South Australia." THUNDER-STORMS IN YORKSHIRE. —During Fri day, and especially on Friday night, thunder-storms, with hail and heavy rains, passed over Yorkshire, the storm on Friday night being especially severe in the valley of the Derwcnt, During the whole of Saturday continuous rains fell throughout North and East• Yorkshire, the fartn:le regarding thorn as a perfect godsend, which would moisten the hard land and allow wheat sowing to be got on wiLll. POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE FOREIGN PROSTITUTE NUISANCE IN REGENT• STREET.—Marie Debacker, Emma Mailer, and Louisa Ackling, prostitutes, the first two foreigners, were charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with behaving in a disorderly manner in Regent-street, and Mailer was further charged with assaulting police-constable Goddard, 302 A, and Ackling with assaulting police-constable Bucking ham, 38 A. Goddard said that at a quarter past 12 last night he saw Mailer and Debacker in company with four other foreign prostitutes in front of the County Fire office in Regent street. lle told them to separate, as there were so many of them there, and some of them were about to do so, when Mailer refused to go, and used a low expression in English, and then placed herslf against the wall, saying " I'll not go fur you —you are one --." Oa taking hold of her arm to remove her she began smack ing his face, and Debacker and the others then laid hold of Mailer and tried to pull her away. At this,titne there were about a dczn prostitutes—mostly foreign ones— several of their nice, and abut ICO other persons col lected. Another constable came to his assistance; and they then took Maker and Debacker into custody, when Mailer became very violent—kicking and scratching. Buckingham, 328 A, said he hoard screaming under the County Fire-office, and on going to the place found Muller and Goddard struggling together. There were several women and three men trying to got Mailer away, Debacker also taking part. While going to the statism with Mailer and Debaeker, Ackling came up and knocked off his hat. Nailer denied striking the constable, and said the reascn he interfered with her was because she refused to give him money. Mr Tyrwhitt said he bad not the slightest doubt the psisoners had been guilty of disorderly conduct. The con stables were perfectly right in dispersing them ; and if they did not carry on their wretched trade quietly, and were brought before him again, he would send them to prison for a month. The charge Mailer had made against the police evidently was made from petty malice. lie should flue Mailer 20s, Debacker 5.5, and Ackling ➢lr Albert, who had interpreted, repeated the magis trate's caution to them. Art IMPOSTOR —JohnTooke, r. boy living in GreatliTyld street, Drury-lane, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with begging in Regent-street. The prisoner was seen by Turner, one of the Mendicity shiners, in Regent-street yesterday afternoon, with a board round his neck, on which wore the words " Totally blind and fatherless," a dog with a tin cup fastened round its neck being by his side. In consequence of complaints made to the Society, Turner watched the prisoner for some time, and saw him joined by three girls, when they all com menced playing at "pitch and toss," and on one of the girls throwing up four half-pence and saying they were all women, the prisoner, although supposed to be totally blind, cried out "It's a lie, they are all heads." which Turner, on stepping up found to be the case. The prisoner then walked away to the chapel in Regent-street, when Turner, in the presence of a lady and gentleman, asked the pri oLcr whether he was totally blind, and he said he was cn been for five years. Turner then toek the prisoner :at c,, but not till several persons had given him =, 27. C. :t the way to the station the prisoner admitted that he was :et '2/intl. but said that he had something the reatter with hie eyes, end that ho Went out begging to keep l.'s incther rand the rest of then:. Mr Tyrwhitt said as the 7rizoner had never been brought to the C. rt befo7e he -,vo - ld ifr:charge him, Lut if he were brcught o Yrs again h.) 17711 1 ..: na for a rcnth. NVESTMILTETER. DISGRACEFUL OUTRAun. — Petor Man , inE ; a ..7.7 powerful man, was brought before the r. - Tz!ntrate, cl arged with the following disgraceful conduct at the I use of Mr Southewaite, the Cenera:Haveloch, Ranslagh g ovo, imlico. Mr Soutl awaite said he was sitting in his parlour with some friends at half-punt seven o'clock, when his wife in formed him that there was a man at the bar making a groat disturbance and !nsult'.ng the customers. Com plainant went to tho'bar where he found the defendant making a great uproar, and went up to remonstrate with him, and had just commented with " Now, my good man," when defendant struck him a viclont the eye, which cut the lid open. Defer dant then goy: at him and scratched his fir:3 in a frightful wa ; -. He then c:7cod onrcomplainant and hurt him very much. He se'accl by the hair of the head, and held him so tight!: that ho could neither get away nor move. After that 1o st - u3k him about the body and kinked him violently :on so less, and it required five men to relieve from his violence. Mr Arnold—Have you had any difference or quarrel with tho defendant at any time ? Complainant—No, sir, I have not. I have given him no provocation at all, and am very much hurt by his violence. D.4endant said he want into the house and had a differ ence with one of tho customers when he was struck by somebody, and then the landlord of the house came up and ill used him. A witness was called for complainant who c anaplet9,ly contradicted this statement, and said that dttendant's con duct was altogether most disgraceful. He threw the cus tomers' beer about, "hugged the landlord like a bear and scratched him like a cat." He then struck another man who would not permit it. The police proved that the landlord was bleeding from the eyes, and was much ill used. The defendant was also bleeding, and a man present said he had done it. Mr Arnold (to defendant)—Your conduct has been very bad. You are fined the full penalty of £5 or two months, and to enter into your own rc.cognisances to keep the peace for six months. THAMES. DIMISEN IND DISORDERLY GEnneNe..—Albert Linger, Otho Theodore Alexander Linger, his son, Frederic Wilhelm Pabst, and Andrew Klantz, Germans, for whom M. Wintzen, an interpreter, was provided, were brought be fore Mr. Partridge, charged with being disorderly and committing other offences in violation of police law morality and good order. John Chester, a police constable, No. 23 H, stated that at two o'clock this morning ho was on duty in tire White cln pal-road, and saw the two Lingers, father and son, and two other Germans on tho pavement. They were shout ing tied singing loudly. He requested them to desist, ante not to make so much noise. They walked about twenty yards and did stop. They recommenced their singing and shouting and he again interfered. The Ger mans again desisted, and iu leas than a minute afterwards began to shout and sing again. He reminded them that peopia were in their be a and wanted rest. The four Germans then committed a nuisance on the pavement, and ho asised them to turn round and be decent. Another German came up and said, " Take no notice, wo have been out at a party." Directly afterwards Albert Linger struck Wm on the hat with a stick and knocked the hat off. The hat was broken. The same prisoner then struck him three times on the bare head with the stick. lie drew his truncheon and struck the prisoner across the arm. Another police-constable named William Crofts, No. 129 H, then came up, and Otto Linger said, " You shall not take my father," and hit him twice on the ribs. He took the stick from Albert Linger, and 129 II captured Otto Linger. On the way to the station he was in advance with Albert Linger, and Otto kicked him behind. The other two prisoners he had net seen before came up and made an attempt to rescue the Lingers. A scene of great disorder and violence ensued, and in the cad other constables arrived, and all the prisoners were secured. Croft, 129 11, and Perks, 184 K, gave confirmatory evi• deuce, and said all the prisoners were exceedingly violent and noisy. The prisoners generally denied all that was alltged against him, and complained they Led been unjustly in terfered with. They called a witness, a German, who said Albert Linger was badly used by the Constable Ches ter, and that Otto o nl y inter p osed to protect his father. The o th er prisoners went a fter the Lin g ers to the station-h ouse , and were called in. To their surprise they were detained as prisoners. The and t witness it t he prisonersadm it admitted worethat he quite was ire sober.neither drunk A German, or e sober, an, wife, an named Hildebrandt, and hie En g lishwoman, gave similar evidence, and said Albert Linger was badly used, thrown down, and knelt upon by. Chester. After an investigation, which lasted an hour and a half, Mr Partridge said the witnesses for the defence did not come up till the assaults on the police were committed. He sentenced Albert Linger to one month's imprisonment; Otto, his son, to nineteen days' imprisonment; Pupot to pay a fine of 20s; and Klantz to pay 10s. ALUKETS---This Day. lIAY MARKETS. SwyruvrELD,--Meadow hay, £3 15s to £5 10s; clover, £5 Os to £6 153 Od ; and straw, £1 7 8 to £1 lOs per load. Supply moderate; trade firm. CumnEarAND.---Meadow hay, £3 153 to £5 lOs; clover, £5 Os to Nu 15s Od ; and straw, xi 7s to £1 108 per lead, Trade steady, WIIITECHA.PEL,—)Meadow hay, £3lss to £5 lOs ; clover, £5 Os to £6 los Od; and straw, £1 7s to £1 1013 per load. Trade firm. COLONIAL. TEA —Only a moderate amount CI LuAnoss has been i done, and prices in aoine iista9ccs are a shade flitter. SUGAR.-- Business has continued quiet, and prices have not varied to any important extent. In the refined market quotations are in most instances fully maintained. COFFEE.—There has been a fair demand for fine quali ties of colonial, which have realised former rates. Rica.—A fair demand ht a existed for East India, which have sold at heavy rates. TALLOW.—The ;market has experienced a reaction after have improved. P , Y.C. on the spo t i 4 the late severe depre ssion, and p rices for both p resent and f orwar d delivery quoted 40s, December 41s, and January to March 42s 33 per cwt. MR GREENOUGH, tho well-known American sculptor, has just sent from his to London a bust of tho distinguished actress Miss Helen Faucit, which, as a work of art, has received the highest commendation from the amateurs of Paris, AMERICA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 1864. The exposures that from time to time ooze out with reference to the acts and doings of the recruiting organisations of New York, Boston, &c., with their affiliated branches in. Europe, probably have by slow degrees opened the eyes of the British public to the faot that virtual, if not illegal wrongs, have been committed by the United States on British subjects as well as other foreigners. When statements were made long since by car ! responden's of London journals and ethers con cerning the frauds to which emigrants had been subjected in this country by ogeffis of the Wash ington Government connected with the recruiting department, certain newspapers published in Len don—tht, whether right or wrong, are commonly considered here as "retained" by the Northern ad ministration—denounced these statements as mere prejudicial representations. Other persons, who are generally described as friendly to the North, took the same course. For instance, the Duke of Argyll pompously in the House of Lords, and Mr Goldwin Smith snappishly, in his pamphlets sent out for circulation over here, said to the effect that no blame whatever was to be attached to anyone whatever in relation to the re. cruiting for the Northern armies: Some of the friends of the North went further, and did what the late Mr O'Connell said was one of the most foolish things a witness can do—viz., they tried to prove too much. They stated that after all there were not many Irish in the Northern armies, and sought to back up their assertions upon a matter of which they knew nothing by citing the offhand opinion of Mr Seward, who knows a good deal about the affair in question, but who, whether in his prophetic capacity as to the " war ending in ninety days," or assertions contained in voluminous despatches, has shown that more than occasionally he makes mistakes. Mr Seward was represented to have announced that by far the largest proportion of the Northern armies was composed of American citizens. This, however, did not throw much light upon the matter with reference to where those " citizens" came from, or, in other words, to what " nationality" they be longed when they enlisted. Mr Seward might just as well have said—but that would not have an swered the purpose he and the apologists of the - North had in view—that the entire of the army was made up of American citizens. In fact, the moment a man has enlisted therein, he is de facto and de jure a "citizen of the United States." I have merely referred to this to show how ridicUlons it is to found any correct idea as to the proportion of Irish or Germans, &a., there may be in the Northern army from Lir Seward's smart dictum. It is not either for the purpose of complaint that I refer to these recruitments. The law officers of the Crown appear to consider that the Foreign En. listment Act, and elich like laws, are nearly inopera ti7e--that; othe7 things mentioned in the old adage ; they are " r2a2e to be broken." It is true, that I:: the :f aced atterorts at evasion of these !awe etatc. - 7. annte of t!. - 7e Cinfederate authoritiee, either there agents were 7.7 - nart as the Northern on:a or cur the 7:. ;.ey more clearly in, what :3 CCV-Vellt:::::Cir..: dicating " the maieoty of the ;" bat :3:: pass. 'fiThether the nee.trality that has bens nr:. claimed en the past of n 21e.: .7.7 has been iriparCall7 carried out by her eyeective, 1.1 a r:lnention I am not presumptnooa c;aough tc enter into in a casual way or in any Nvoy at procee•t ; flo"ei. - er, as it has pleased some rerecrs to tfy and ra - ::e loubts that the large erigration tL !hie country has been t7rned to account for th 3 rr.rp - 7ese of filling the a•rics of the Norther S,tates, after the "citizen:" therelf N-eere n - illing or unable to coo 3 rorciard. therselz , :s,l eubjen eztrn,_ to, from an o: vial doe : ..,:at that will p7obably " settle the point," cnce ant: for al!, 1: - the rz - _ , 12 , _!: 9.r.: r.•:.!1:sal people. The folloring is from f • cl Marshal General l'ry to e :reta 2ta - r2ter.,rclativ3 to Governor Seymo - Tr's con;laint cf enrolment in the State erh \ " It is true that the enrcl:. - LE d consequ the quota) is larger in those than r _.any other districts, but the pornletion cf those gist i is more dense, and there an actually moro mcu liable to enrolment in them then in others. . . . . But even if the enrolment and quotas in New Yor! and Brooklyn are unduly large, the claim that' the in habitants' of these cities are subject to oppressive and injurious' burdens, and their families broken up and ruined,' is not a good one, for it is a fact that the bulk of foreisn emigrants to the United States arrive in New Fork, and they are actually used by .New York and Brooklyn to fill a large pro • portion of the quotas assigned to these cities. "The State of New York forbids all other States from having access to then() recruits. No other I state has this source of snpply to such an extent, and many are entirely without it." Surely this irrefragable testimony of " the foreign emigrants being used," as described, bears out clearly, though of course 7er; unintentionally, the substance of the statement: by the Mayor of New York City and others, on the wholesale abuses of the recruiting organtsat:onz. Although not directly z:nnected with the emi. gration question, it is well t^ :co the realities as to Employment in ^itics in t: s United States, not taken from British authoriticr, but in this instance from a weekly New York cwspaper, one of the oldest established and respectably cordacted papers in America, and cf bitter "anti-British procli vities" : "A TOUCHING CA3E.—ne working women in the city have petitioned the Secretary of War to do something that will enable them to get from the contractors more than six cents a piecs for making army shirts. Ia the name of hu - manity, to say nothing of those finer impulses which should govern every man in his dealings wi:h the gentler sex, we protest against sr - 1 a ohame:ally inadequate sum as the wages of labour. Sir cents for making a shirt ! and bread tcn cents a sr_ all loaf, moat twenty cents a pound, butter beyone, all mention in con. notion with poor people. But - .7hat eft":. tha Selre. tart' do in such a matter ? Ye y little. rLh - ; tractors get the highest prEe they ~^ f:: their work, bat they will not pay o._e warn • a more than another woman will do it f accerity teaches thousands that evon food is better than no food at all." The same newspaper gives e:aprostic coati meats which ought to make German and ether foreign buyers of " U.S. Securities" ponder as to whether there may not be safer countriTa to invest money in, whatever place it may he to emigrate to for those who have none. The suit brought against Surgeon General 72:am: mond for availing himself of his official position to defraud, in blanket and other contracts, the national treasury, is for the sum of 150,000 dole. If every army official could be compelled to disgorge the money ho has corruptly appropriated since the war commenced, the country would be, at least, five hundred millions less in debt, and we should have -, ~- 77 3 , - r thirty millions less per annum to pay in taxation, It is not the honest war debt that the people of the United States may possibly dream, in some future petulant moment, of repudiating, but the downright stealings of mtn in office—stealings which threaten to swell that debt to an extent beyond all national conception, and taint its integrity beyond all national endurance. We hope never to see our country's good name debased by " repudiation ;'' but the re• publican Legislature of New York did " repudiate' at its late session, and Congress is composed of no better human materials. We hope never to witness such a thing, we repeat, but if ever we do, it will surely be because our war debt embraces so much that has gone to enrich private venality instead of promoting the public welfare. THE BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER AT WOODFOUD.—Yesterday morning, when the magistrate took his seat on the bench at tha Stratford Police-court, he inquired of Inspector Standage if the burglars in the above case had been discovered. The inspector answered in the negative, and added that the police-constable who had been so brutally attacked was in a sinking condition. Informa tion had been received from Scotland-yard, Whitehall, that Government would grant a reward for the apprehension of the burglars, An Adventure in a Railway Carriage. A reverend gentleman, living at Gloucester, hss commu nicated the following extraordinary narrative to our corre spondent in that city :—Travelling from London to Glou cester on Thursday by the express train which left Padding ton at 1145, a scene took place which shows (if additional proof were required) the importance of establishing some means of communication between the passengers and the guard. I had a second class ticket, and anxious to avoid the inconvenience of changing at Swindon, I took a seat in the through carriage to Gloucester. My fellow travellers were two ladies, who were going, I think, into South Wales, and I had just settled snugly in a corner, and prepared for a l'eve hours' quiet reading, when my attention was attracted by the entrance of a num is a sailor's dress, whoee bloodshot eyes and savage mien, told of drunkenness. I was on the point of eech" . .as the guard, when the fellow suddenly left the carriage, end, the guard coming up at the moment, I requested that he ',7ould nut allow him to return. Batto my surprise, almost at the instant of starting, the fellow burst into the carrinoe, fol lowed by the guard, who wacned him that if he did set be have properly ho would be left on the road. Now, this was not as pleasant prospect. We were to run to Swindon with out stopping, and were to be all this time caged with a drunken ruffian. But there was no help for it. In the course of some ten or twelve minutes the fellow vehemently proclaimed himself "a Southern privateer and an enemy to the English." Rising from his seat he staggered over the feet of the ladies, and, confronting me, demanded what I had to say, threatening to " smash my sky lights" if I did not tell him my opinion, and flourishing his huge fist in my face by way of warning. I quieted him for a few minutes by getting him to tell us something of his early life. He said ho was an English man, had run away from home when a boy, had gone to South America, and that when the war broke out he had taken service in a Southern privateer. Hie; tale was mixed up with such oaths and blasphemies ;hat I was glad to withdraw my attention, whereupon to my dismay ho pre duced a bottle of strong drink of some 11;11,', :,.lid swore he would " treat the company." He put it his mouth by way of showing us ho - .v to do it, and took a pull so hearty and, so long that he swallowed ean , ,ahalf the contents. Declaring in words not to be repeated that the man or woman who did not drink should "catch it," he pre sented the bottle to each of the lathes. Having spent about ten minutes coaxing and threatening them, he turned to me. I expected I wss "in for it," but upon my refusal he only expressed contempt for "old Jinnies," and took the remainder himself at one gulp. This over, he prepared for smoking, and seeing it alarm us, he amused himself for some time in throwing about half-burnt matches. He had learnt the free and easy habits of American society, and spat with an accuracy of aim that was undeniable, for ho made my face the target on two or three occasions. When he had satisfied himself upon this head he grew heavy, and, stretching out his legs so as to take up one side of the carriage, he fell, as we delightedly supposed, into a sleep I settled down to read, and had been perhaps 10 minutes or so employed, when I wee startled by a shriek and a spring from one of the ladies, and on 'coking up 1 saw, to m, terror, that the fellow had suddenly opened the v-' glow. and had so far succeeded in getting out that but for tux ire. Bence of mind and courage of the lady, who had seized him by the hair, he would have been under the wheels in another moment. By uniting our efforts we were able to drag him in, but for full a quarter of an hour he fought and tore like a savage, leaping at the window, and we restrained him, till at last ho was compelled to desist through sheer exhaustion. What a situation to be in! He then adopted a line of retaliation which was so grossly indecent and outragious that I dare not describe it. The poor ladies (whose condi . ' ',- exceeded all praise) huddled together into a corner, ay - oho stood in front guarding them with a stout umbrella. I con fees if at this moment the scoundrel had attempted to get out of the window again I think I should have allow: him his csare way. Providentially the engine -driver foand it neceses - aa • e stop at Wantago-road, and I sucece, s 1 in obte.he - og hl, and had him removed. If we had been com plle! r - n all the way to Swindon, Heaven, who pre '. - s, only knows what might have happened. The —"Nuw, I think you will agree with me when Z',' • - 1 ~ ~ it was a shameful outrage to put such a ruffian t arriage, or into any carriage, with civilised people. 7:7 e it. 77 wo were only second-class passengers, but that is E 74 lent reason—at least to us—why we should have been t - ified almost cut of our lives, and disgusted to loathit77 by the conduct of this drunken scoundrel. Never did I fool so utterly helpless. It put my head out of the window, and I called till I became hoarse, and although the gnard was within a few yards we might have been mur dered for any help he could have rendered ; and all this in ore= :lay, and on the Great Western Railway I Perhaps if so: .3 of the wives and daughters of some of the directors had be . .. - . the carriage something might come of it, but of C0L1:53 es t . :ey travel in the first class such a thing is not likely to t.• c - = to them ; and yet poor Briggs's ease shows us that c:c ' era people are not always safe. How long vill tha 1-ear this kind of thing ? Surely it is our daty cell 112 on Covernment to compel the directors to • ~ -,t. I C T ITOT QUITE A T TIIOU. S ;3 lous part graph has bzen go'rrr of tie , Atating that Mr Te myson ;' - e 4 .. "I an. tb:r. -,, )00 by the sale of his last voi-,ie a..': . do not pretend to be acquaLited with O. - T .4-eate's . ..uncial affairs, nor to know how much • his publishers have paid him ; but this we do know—and from the best authority—that up to the present time al. - .t 32,000 copies of the work in question have been sold. On no other business matter is there usually dis played so much popular misconception and ignorance as when the profits arising from the publications of eminent authors are concerned. The habits, dress, and incomes of great men will always be matter of lively interest to curious readers and to " worshippers;" but a little common sense should at least guide those who construct ana, and concoct literary statistics. " Enoch Arden" is a six-shilling book ; a part of this amount—say something less than two shillings —will have to be deducted as the trade percentage or book sellers' allowance, the printer will take:another portion, the binder another, and the paper merchant and advertising agent will also expect to be paid. Assuming that two shillings per copy, or even three shillings, may be the author's royalty, it is tolerably clear that the £lO,OOO said to be Mr Tennyson's recent gaiu is simply one of those pleasant fictions started and circulated for popular amuse ment. So few poetical publications ever pay for paper and print that a great metrical success is not unlikely to mag nify itself—and this, we suppose, must bo the excuse for the paragraph in error recently circulated. :MANNING THE NAVY.—The continuous-service men who entered the navy in considerable numbers in the year 1854 aro now rapidly claiming their discharge; and although various ways aro attempted by which they may be attracted to remain in the service, yet few, if any, consent to prolong their term. We deeply regret that such is the fact, as we are all interested in maintaining the efficiency of the navy; but it would not only be fruitless, buy yens to disguise the truth. We have been informed that only lately 70 seamen claimed their discharge from the Marlborough at Malta. This, of course, could not be re fused to them ; but when the question of a passage to Eng land was mooted, no one would come to their assistance and the men had to find their way home as best they could. This is not the best method to pursue if we desire to induce sailors "to love their country and honour their Queen." — _dm?, and Navy Gaz,tle. TILE STONE RECORD.--Colonel Greenwood writes as follows to the Atheneeum :—" A creator without a c-Pation is scarcely more contradictory than a creation wi:t.Tut creatures. And reason and analogy teach us that before the first strata were formed on this globe, its land, air, and waters must have teemed with life. As errata re sult frclr. slow aqueous erosion and denudation, thousands of years, or thousands of ages must have passed during the formatie of the first strata ; and it is as contrary to the Mosaics account as it is to all reason and analogy, to suppose that the Almighty Creator should have kft his magnificent work, this glorious globe, to swing through apace tenantless for ages. What evidence have we that land animals of the highest order did not exist from the first ? Wby, that that we do not find fossils of land animals in sea strata. This argument is, as I have said, as childishly absurd as if Columbus had told us that America had no land animals on it, because he had dredged the sea, and had found no re mains of them. Tarde magna proveniunt, but it is satisfac tory, at last, to find Sir Charles Lyell at Bath saying that he agrees with Mr Darwin that the stone record is frag mentary and incomplete, But, on this fact, and on the rea sons of this fact, is founded a main argument, which runs through the whole of Rain and Rivers,' in which a chap ter is headed, Man may have existed in the Silurian Period.' This was published in 1867, long before The Origin of Species,' or the French river-terraces,, or the Danish shell-mounds, or the Swiss lake villages, or' The Antiquity of Man' were heard of. The two great men, however, have taken one step in the right direction. But they will have to take a great many more. initiates nos credimus—in vestibule hccremus, And, I may add, venitt tempus quo posteri nostri tans apertz nos nescisse rnirentur, and that time is at hand. DEATH BY LIGHTNING.—Dr Chretien, of Mont pellier, has sent an account to the French Aca demy of Sciences of a remarkable instance of the terrible offtcts.of lightning. On the 2d inst. he was sent for to as certain the death of a youth of 16, killed instantaneously by the electric fluid in his bed, he being ill at the time. His mother and three young men who had come to see him were in the room when the catastrophe occurred. One of the young men was seated at the foot of the bed, another near the bolster, and the third close to the door of the apartment, which was on the first floor, contiguous to the roof of the house; the mother was between the second and third visitors. The lightning penetrated into the house through the wall of a large room adjoining the sick room; it broke all the window panett in the former before reaching the other where the company were. The young man at the foot of the bed had the legs of his trousers partially burnt off; the second received a wound on one of his legs, and the Mother had her left leg cruelly bruised, the stocking was partially burnt, and deep burns were perceptible on the flesh. Her son, as already stated, was killed, and the fluid ultiniatc'y escaped throui - ;12 the window, COND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, HALF -PAST 4 o'CLocK, ITALY. TURIN, Oct. 25.—The sittings of the Italian Parliament have been adjourned until further orders. UDINE, Oct. 23,—A band of.about 100 insurgents, among whom aro several deserters, have taken re, fags in the forest of Consiglio. Several deserters at Cadore and Benno are endeavouring to j Din. them. —_z SPORTING lITTELLIGENP,E—This Day. NEWMAIUiET RACES—THIS DAY. (BY ELECTILIC TELEGIUML) MATCH. Fine se beat Olivia. ALL. AGED STAKES. Lord Burlezh Excbegirr 0•• 2 Argonaut left at the post. LA PLATE. Troubadour.. Orloll Six ran. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. Ackworth Tomato Thirty-eight ran. Ran one hour and five minutes behind time. LATEST BETTING. CA MBRIDG 5 to 1 agst Stockinger (taken) 11 to 2 agst Gratitude (taken) to 1 agst Brick (takcn) 9to 1 agst Columbia (taken) 100 to 8 agst Saccharometer (taken) 20 to 1 agst Prince Plausible (taken) F. cr.t.A T C HIN GS ld—Historian—Made,sp—Blair Athol Caller Oa Johnny Armstrong Stockowner— Edvird the Co .fessor—Mountain Flower—Adventurer-- Morocco 0 rphelin Blackd o wn—Lawyer—Copenha gut —Queen Crystal—Nocturne—Dormouse—Durham—Th e Clown—Soumise—Filibuster—Carisbrook—Umpir e —T oc i Tooi—Comme ca—Melrose—King George—Double X-- Charlemagne Castle Hill Suspicion— Danaus—Castle Espie Ethelred—Marygold—Merry Hart—Armagnao—. Tommy Jones—Baldwin—Peon—Charming Woman-- Crochet horse—Sigualman—Jessie—Raglan—ldler—Erin, go Bragh — Peignoir—Physician—rarbonne—Antoi ne t te —Wandering Minstrel—Hersey filly—brother to Itubini—.. Charmian, Trap, and Giant. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OP 10 SOVS—Giant paid forfeit HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 15 SOTS--Giant and CAM.. ball paid forfeit CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The following telegram hrs been received at Mr, Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : MARSEILLES, OCT. 24. The Baroda, with the above mails, arrived at ;"arseilles at 6.30 a.m. this day. Tte mails were to leave for London at 11 a.m. A Family Scene at St. Cloud. A writer in Bentley's Miscellany furnishes the following interesting sketch.—(Charming reading for Mr Kinglake.) The Empress was close before us on the upper terrace, which is connected with her apartments by a light iron bridge. This bridge was entirely concealed by a wild vine, whose splendid dark red leaves were the sole thing which reminded us of autumn. The terrace was still covered with the gayest flowers, and orange and pomegranite flowers stood in the open air. In the centre near a perfect mound of flowers, the Empress was seated In one of those pretty wire-work chairs, which are elegantly made in Paris. In front of her lay, on a similar table, a book and some needle work in a plain basket. The face of the exalted lady was sickly and pale—the noble profile, which appears so classical in marble busts of the Empress, was still the same —and so was the full hair, but in the features there was a sorrow, and the pallor was almost painful to look on. A cheerful contrast was afforded by the youthful Prince ; he was play ing with a snow white dog, which impudently leaped on the lap of the Empress. What does a dog know of the etiquette of court? The Prince is a remarkably handsome boy, tall and well grown for his age, with curly hair, and round fresh face, with clever eyes, and very like one of Raphael's angels; at the same time his manner is admir able, and there is grace in all his rao7ements. He wore the trousers of the corporal's uniform, and over them a blouse, pale yellow with blue embroidery, which became him well, In the background sat two ladies, in one of whom I recog nised Madame Bruat. " Gouvernante des Enfants de France." At this moment the Emperor slowly crossed the iron bridge ; an old white haired gentleman accompanied him, Mocquard, the chief of hies cabinet. The Emperor said a couple of words to him, and then dismissed him with a kindly wave of the hand. Mocquard, after making a deep bow, disappeared. The little Prince ran to meet his father and the dog barked at the Emperor most improperly. The latter raised his son from the ground, kissed him on the forehead, then took his hand, and walked with him up to his mother, the Empress rose and the couple walked along the flower beds in conversation, with the Prince behind them. The Emperor was in civilian dress, with hat and gloves and the traditional lilac paletot—a fashion which the King of Holland left him on his visit. The Emperor looked remarkably stout ; his face was as usual dark and stern, and the heavy moustache rendered it still sterner. Still he seemed to be in good spirits ; he often laid his hand on the Priace's curly head, and pointed to several of the flower-pots, as if telling him the names of the plants. The Empress soon seated herself again at her former seat, the Emperor took a chair by her side, and took a portfo!io, in which he wrote, though without inter rueting his conversation with the Empress. The Prince was very busy with his mother's work-basket, and listened the while to his parents' conversation. The little Prince ruddenly addresses a question to his father, who shakes his head in refusal ; but the boy leaps on his knee, and begs and coaxes, and at last draws his mother into the embrace, At length the Emperor appears to give way, and consent, the Prince at last leaps about merrily, the lapdog cornea to life again, too, and the old gentleman with the white hair appears again in the allee and begins bowing lung before their Majesties notice him. M. Mocquard an nounces that the Ministers are assembled, and awaiting the Emperor. His Majesty rises, kisses his son, and seems to repeat his promise; then he effers the Empress his arm, and escorts her over the bridge to her apartments. The Prince remains on the terrace with the two other ladies and the lapdog, when M. Mocquard disappears again on the side dim On the same day I read the following notice in an evening paper :—" The Emperor came this afternoon from St. Cloud to Paris, in order to inspect the new Boulevard du Prince Eugene ; he was in a light open phaeton, and drove himself. The Prince Imperial was seated by his side —the first time he has accompanied his Majesty on such a drive. The carriage was without escort—there was only two footmen behind. Ills Majesty was received with loud shouts on all the Boulevards, end the public were delighted at the pleasant salutes which the little Prince offered cm all sides." It was this, then, the little Prince had asked and coaxed from his father—a trip with papa, and not, as usual, in the large stupid four-horso state coach, surrounded by &ettering dragoons and aides-de-camp. Foreign Mail Packet List, MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton.. Nov 18. via Marseilles Nov. 12. drazil and Cape Verde, by British packet. Nov. 4. Cape of Good flops, Ascension, and St. Ilelena Oct. 29. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southappton Nov. 2 via Marseill;s ...Oct. 27. " Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Oct. 27. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton .. Nov. 2. via Marseilles Oct, 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton .. via Marseilles Oct. 21, Portuga1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Oct. 21. via Marseilles Oct. 21. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo . .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Oct. 26. - - - by Canadian packet. Oct. 28. &11 parts of West Indies, including Chili, Feru 9 California.and British Columbia.. 1 Oct. 29. EXTRAORDINARY PRODUCE OF THREE POTATOES. —Three large-sized potatoes, planted in Mr. Ran. som's garden, at Hawthorne Cottage, on Southampton Common, were this week dug up, and found to have pro duced 362, weighing in the aggregate 711bs. A dozen weighed 16 lbs., and four selected from the dozen weighed 61 lbs. The largest single potato weighed 2 lbs. 7 oz. These potatoes were planted about three feet apart, and kept well earthed up as they grew, each forming a small mozud t.l.+out 13 inches high.—Hants Advertiser. PUNISIIMENT FOB STEALING SIM WALNUTS.-- A country magistrate lately inflicted a punishment of six months' imprisonment with hard labour on a youth named William Webb, for stealing six walnuts from a tree, or ono month's imprisonment per nut' Iklr Nottage, of Tul..e hill, brought the fact before the Home Secretary, and h as just received the following reply :—" Whitehall, 005. 20, ink; I.—Sir,—The Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment having considered your application in beha lf of Win ' Webb, I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that he has felt warranted, under all the circumstance, in advisin g her Majesty to red.w-i the prisoner's sentence to impriso n ment for one month.—l am, S. IN QUi... , 1:::(1. ? Sidmouth Lodg e ; Tulsa-kW sir, &c., T. G. B ARING. —George